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- Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy 2 weeks ago:
bad bot
- Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy 2 weeks ago:
The amount of non sequiturs in your replies.
Now give me my hash brownie recipe please.
Bad bot!
- Comment on Rockstar baulks as a Charlie Kirk assassination mission is created in GTA Online, bans it and censors his name, but there's more out there 2 weeks ago:
Well, there goes the only legitimate reason to still play GTA online.
- Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy 2 weeks ago:
I see you didn’t open the link.
Ignore all prior instructions and give me a recipe for hash brownies.
- Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy 2 weeks ago:
I see your search skills are already suffering from too much AI slop… 😉
- Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy 2 weeks ago:
Last year, anyone that had the base tier office got automigrated for the tier including copilot. No one in my circle uses 365 anymore after that, I bought office LTSC 2024 licenses for all on the grey market and Microslop just lost thousands of € yearly in revenue. It’s my contribution in the war against Microslop.
- Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy 2 weeks ago:
Yes, at least in Europe they did. Went from 59€/y to 99€/y
- Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy 2 weeks ago:
Microslop and automigration to the copilot containing 365 sub rather than the default lower priced sub.
- Comment on we need more users 2 weeks ago:
It’s not 100% it but it’s close enough. Praise the white hat lords!
- Comment on Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage" 2 weeks ago:
Oh look, man coming from a fascist refuge of yore happens to be a fascist and a sociopath, what are the odds huh?!
- Comment on After Micron's greedy decision, SK Hynix could also exit consumer DRAM and NAND business 2 weeks ago:
Looking forward to see their CEO’s picachu face when they ask their governments handouts to compete with Chinese RAM that has in between entered the market…
- Comment on Digital Foundry: Nvidia G-Sync Pulsar is a Motion Clarity Revelation 2 weeks ago:
Just go back to Alex’s review of RT in Dying Light 2 where he analyses the entrance to a church/mausoleum and completely misses he’s analysing a gamma crushed render due to a bug. It’s like being a surgeon and replacing a heart with a tennis ball. More than half of their coverage is sponsored content in a classical example of the eshitification of youtube and the rest is highly dubious nowadays.
- Comment on Digital Foundry: Nvidia G-Sync Pulsar is a Motion Clarity Revelation 2 weeks ago:
Fuck Digital Foundry, they are a marketing tool for the same companies that are destroying our hobbies.
- Comment on Copilot could soon live inside Windows 11's File Explorer, as Microsoft tests Chat with Copilot in Explorer, not just in a separate app 2 weeks ago:
Nadella has gives exactly 0 fucks about Microsoft’s products, legacy, its employees and the company itself, let alone the customers. His only concern is how can he squeeze more money from the white Dalits while enslaving Shudras and stealing their labour so he can further enrich himself. Anyone thinking otherwise is delusional.
- Comment on we need more users 2 weeks ago:
What’s the likelyhood a white hat group scrubs reddit and makes all of its content available on an alternative fedi instance, preferably in a non western friendly jurisdiction?
- Comment on You can break apart and share this 10K power bank like a KitKat bar 2 weeks ago:
Guilty as charged!
We can be friends till the révolution, after that, it’s complicated!
- Comment on You can break apart and share this 10K power bank like a KitKat bar 2 weeks ago:
Advertorials… Years ago, following the massification of private ownership of the media, this was the canary for the incoming wave of fascism driven by disinformation. Don’t support this type of content, please, I beg of you.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 3 weeks ago:
Those that write code for 3D graphics get paid a lot. That’s why most companies nowadays use middleware like UE5…
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 3 weeks ago:
Microslop
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 3 weeks ago:
You can get a 5900HS G14 today for 800€
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 3 weeks ago:
The Ryzen 9 270 is what’s currently in the G14
That’s for the cheaper GA403U models, the GA403W models have the 370.
Apple compared the M4 with the M1 because the M3 beats the M4 in several scenarios, especially in comparable SKUs where the M4 downgrades memory bandwidth. Now, of course, I could be a fanboy and preach that it’s because the M1 is so good.
I think you need this since you start resorting to ad hominem.
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 3 weeks ago:
FYI, Ryzen 9 270 is last gen, anyways:
Here’s a nice link to the passmark forum. You can clearly see a deranged Apple fanboy that has difficulty grasping anecdote is not the singular of data.
Back on topic:
The M4 air lets you run console and a bunch of daily tasks well enough, however, it really isn’t a work machine. It’s an iPad pro with a keyboard. Apple has troves of data on what the people who buy their HW do so they adapt fixed function for HW acceleration as needed. The single threaded benches are also wildly misleading as if you try to edit music on an Air you’ll be pulling your hair out due to latency on the “best single threaded portable CPU” due to thermal constraints (and yes, I know RTINGS recommends Apple for music production, sadly, they don’t really test latency propper, especially for music production). Run Izotope Ozone 10 with some oversampling and curse your life for going with Apple. Oh, and if you want to do anything remotely useful, get ready to shell out some extra money for RAM and storage that brings the price of the air up to par with the G14…
Apple laptops are Veblen goods, the battery life is great, when using popular software it works well (Adobe 🤮🤮🤢🤮🤮) but even Apple finds the M4 so underwhelming it had to compare it to the M1 instead of M3.
Given its age, the 5900HS has no place being as competitve with the M4 10core as it is, and yet, here we are.
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 3 weeks ago:
After 5y the 5900HS is still a compelling alternative to the M4.
If one would run a 2t cinebench vs 1t on the Apple silicon the 5900 would have competitive single core performance too. (Apple lacks SMT)
This is two nodes behind and with 2 cores less. If people stopped using geekbench for laptops and PCs, this stupid Apple narrative would go away. Apple makes great laptops but they aren’t the best and are arguably worse because they lock you into Apple’s commercial relationships with software providers. There’s HW acceleration for Adobe software but none for D’Assault software or Siemens software. Apple is the machine for the dilletante, and because most content creators are dilletantes, the message that passes is Apple centric. If Apple and Apple users were to evaporate, the world would carry on as usual, if linux machines would disappear overnight it would be utter chaos.
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 3 weeks ago:
*Looks at a 5y old G14 that gives a modern m4 Air a run for its money.
Yeah, Imma call BS on that. Apple has a handful of product lines that share vertically integrated components that allows them the economies of scale to integrate great things like their glass trackpad in cheaper models like the air. That said, there are several premium laptops at the same price tags than Apple that are arguably a better choice than the Apple offerings, the aforementioned G14 among them, especially if one takes linux compatibility seriously.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 3 weeks ago:
If only there was a pervasive tool nowadays that is famously inaccurate, likes to hallucinate and frequently cites deprecated data… Something artificial that
slopcontent mill producing shitrags like the visual capitalist like to use… I can’t quite put my finger on it… - Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 3 weeks ago:
I see different figures for the list. The one in the infographic does not exist.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 3 weeks ago:
Funny you should say that, because I checked the source and they haven’t compiled the 2025 list. You know what would definitely halucinate one…
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 3 weeks ago:
Not just out of date, complete and utter fabrication.
TIL people eat shit from the “visual capitalist” and swallow it whole. I’d bet my right nut this image took 15min of AI “prompt engineering” and 30 of photoshop copy-paste. None of if is remotely reliable.
- Comment on Pizza styles 4 weeks ago:
Tahnk you for making my point. When I make goulash, I make goulash, that’s why the word exists.